Shoreline_
Well-known member
Yea pretty easy to figure out. Thanks for pointing that out.
Best tool drawer liner material?
- Thread starter drummerdimitri
- Start date
Old Man Roger
Well-known member
Ahh! To me it sounded like you were saying it was a different company. 
rust in the eye
Well-known member
I give up
mattstevens
Active member
- Joined
- Jun 3, 2023
- Messages
- 44
Based on a search of the forum gonna guess it's Nu-Source SL35A:
nsimaterialsgroup.com
nsimaterialsgroup.com
Looks like the company used to engage here and there were some threads about it: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/members/ericnusource.198929/#recent-content
And someone posted a video showing it a bit. Unfortunately doesn't show what I really wanted to see, how well it keeps stuff in place when a drawer is slammed. For this I have relied on magnets or rows of bins to keep things mostly contained.
REDI-GUARD Tm TOOL BOX LINER - 72
# 1 Preferred Option for Do it yourself Tool Box owners Thickness: 1/16" Color: Black Attributes: Anti-Corrosive, non-sliding, dense material for the professional! MADE IN THE USA - Rolls are shipping 72" Wide UNFOLDED on a flat cardboard core. - Easy to cut yourself! - Enough material for...
nsimaterialsgroup.com
Tool Box/Drawer Liner Material
USA Made High Quality Tool Box Liner. Matches KRL Snap-On, Matco, and many more USA Branda!
nsimaterialsgroup.com
Looks like the company used to engage here and there were some threads about it: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/members/ericnusource.198929/#recent-content
And someone posted a video showing it a bit. Unfortunately doesn't show what I really wanted to see, how well it keeps stuff in place when a drawer is slammed. For this I have relied on magnets or rows of bins to keep things mostly contained.
If it's Nu Source liner, it does not bunch up when drawers are slammed, nor do tools ever slide around. It hasn't been confirmed but I believe the NuSource liner is the same PVC liner SO uses for their premium KRL boxes. (slightly different texture pattern)Based on a search of the forum gonna guess it's Nu-Source SL35A:
REDI-GUARD Tm TOOL BOX LINER - 72
# 1 Preferred Option for Do it yourself Tool Box owners Thickness: 1/16" Color: Black Attributes: Anti-Corrosive, non-sliding, dense material for the professional! MADE IN THE USA - Rolls are shipping 72" Wide UNFOLDED on a flat cardboard core. - Easy to cut yourself! - Enough material for...
Tool Box/Drawer Liner Material
USA Made High Quality Tool Box Liner. Matches KRL Snap-On, Matco, and many more USA Branda!
Looks like the company used to engage here and there were some threads about it: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/members/ericnusource.198929/#recent-content
And someone posted a video showing it a bit. Unfortunately doesn't show what I really wanted to see, how well it keeps stuff in place when a drawer is slammed. For this I have relied on magnets or rows of bins to keep things mostly contained.
Shoreline_
Well-known member
Exactly. There ya go. The ol Google machine
He confirmed it when I emailed them.
He confirmed it when I emailed them.
I’m pretty happy and a huge upgrade vs that included with HF44 (series1Anybody try toolbox widget? Reasonable price and looks good. Only a single review.
Looks like 20% BF sale has ended.
Premium Drawer Liner | Toolbox Widget
Keep your toolbox protected with ToolBox Widget Premium Drawer Liners! Non-slip, easy to cut, and available in multiple sizes. Shop now.toolboxwidget.com
). One downside ... the logos will be in different left / right position. Front/back should be consistent, although not centered (if only making one cut for drawer depth). Be sure to always cut from either bottom or top. I messed up on 1 drawer so it looks noticeably different vs others. If you don’t like the logo, flip it over 
Last edited:
Twisted Sid
Well-known member
Ive been using this stuff from Home Depot. Its rubber 26" wide, sold by the foot, and works pretty good.
tool_scrounge
Well-known member
I am a huge fan of the Nu Source tool box drawer liner and have used many rolls of the stuff for company tool boxes.
Do you like it? Is it thick rubber or just foam?I’m pretty happy and a huge upgrade vs that included with HF44 (series1
karoc
Well-known member
With these liners, wonder if those magnetic base socket holders still works? Or maybe magnetic base not needed?
I do like it, but admittedly, no real use yet. It looks good and feels good.
It’s feels like high quality foam. Good density and way denser than the “elementary school craft foam” liners that came with the HF44 box 20 years ago.
It’s 2.1mm thick.
I just looked at Walmart.com. Many Yoga mats are showing 5mm thick. One showed 3/4”(hard to believe!)it's really strange that so much of this stuff just looks like the 3mm thick yoga mat that was suggested on page one. No, it's not yoga mat, it's manly toolbox liner
Edit: measured 2 from basement
Cheapo kids yoga mat: 4-5mm with lots of compression
Lululemon yoga mat: 5mm with less
Compression but do your whole box and liners would be $$$ vs a snapon epic
It seems hard over the last 10 years to find rubber mats.
Problems:
--To thin or made of foam. Needs to be thick enough for the top of a roll cab . I have a Kennedy bottom cabinet that never came with a mat on top or in the bottom open area at the bottom that needs a mat not a liner really.
--Way to over priced. Look around many are at $100 or more for a size to fit may tool boxes. Even some of the foam mats are high priced.
--Yoga mats mostly have logos and odd colors and round corners that need cut off because its not the exact size, sloped edges that need cut off usually, and most are not cheap like they use to be.
Have you ever seen foam or rubber mats being made? They are now made in the most 3rd world countries not just China like Vietnam and India in the dirt with no shoes on. Not being mean, in fact it was cool to watch.
Foam liquid come out and expands like the noodles do in a wok. Boom foam the size of a small shed or a work van. Then its sliced up.
Rubber mat comes from usually recycled rubber tires etc poured in to a mold or a mold that's shaped like a conveyor belt and heated up and spit out usually in long belt or wide mats. Sometimes stamped out or formed by a stamp.
Many of the set ups for both use homemade stamps and tools just sitting in the dirt.
It's not expensive to make and you can tell, but at least half the products we buy come with rubber or foam this or that and the cost is cheap. Makes me want into invest in rubber mat making.
It seems the Yoga mat craze pushed the cost up to a ridiculous price.
Yes I've seen some stuff at Home depot you can have cut and will probably do that.
But rubber liner that is not soft foam is pretty hard to find. I have a roll of Red Casoman liner but I think it made of foam, I have not used it yet.
Problems:
--To thin or made of foam. Needs to be thick enough for the top of a roll cab . I have a Kennedy bottom cabinet that never came with a mat on top or in the bottom open area at the bottom that needs a mat not a liner really.
--Way to over priced. Look around many are at $100 or more for a size to fit may tool boxes. Even some of the foam mats are high priced.
--Yoga mats mostly have logos and odd colors and round corners that need cut off because its not the exact size, sloped edges that need cut off usually, and most are not cheap like they use to be.
Have you ever seen foam or rubber mats being made? They are now made in the most 3rd world countries not just China like Vietnam and India in the dirt with no shoes on. Not being mean, in fact it was cool to watch.
Foam liquid come out and expands like the noodles do in a wok. Boom foam the size of a small shed or a work van. Then its sliced up.
Rubber mat comes from usually recycled rubber tires etc poured in to a mold or a mold that's shaped like a conveyor belt and heated up and spit out usually in long belt or wide mats. Sometimes stamped out or formed by a stamp.
Many of the set ups for both use homemade stamps and tools just sitting in the dirt.
It's not expensive to make and you can tell, but at least half the products we buy come with rubber or foam this or that and the cost is cheap. Makes me want into invest in rubber mat making.
It seems the Yoga mat craze pushed the cost up to a ridiculous price.
Yes I've seen some stuff at Home depot you can have cut and will probably do that.
But rubber liner that is not soft foam is pretty hard to find. I have a roll of Red Casoman liner but I think it made of foam, I have not used it yet.
ssjones
Well-known member
From a thread here, I also went with NSI for my Snap-On Box. It's just about perfect.
NSI tool box liner
If you are ordering tool box liner. Order extra, was able to get the larger drawers done but wish I had more for smaller drawers and a side cabinet. High quality product from NSI. I researched this a lot and can share this seems to be equal or slightly better than what Snap-on used.
www.garagejournal.com
